GRGR(12): Women, Dope & Information

Lorentzen / Nicklaus lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Wed Oct 20 11:16:46 CDT 1999


Hartwin Gebhardt schrieb:
> >  "'What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the 
> > world's gone insane,  
> >  with information come to be the only real medium of 
> > exchange?'" (p. 258)
> > 
> >  2 very good questions! KFL
>
> Does this mean women, who surely do not want to be 'mediums of exchange',
> are predisposed towards the 'new' information exchange system? Like Katje?


  Don't know. I was just, maybe a little far out, reading this as an observation 
  of the digitalization of desire. Furthermore, I always have to laugh when I 
  read the passage. Is this somehow not "correct"?
 
  KFL /: PS: In erotic, aesthetic or spiritual contexts SOME women surely enjoy 
         being "mediums of exchange". Also in politics. Like Frenesi? Of course 
         this is - mutatis mutandis - also true for men.   




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